I don’t care about practice jerseys.

I voted no, if the cap comes off, or Indy starts having issues making enough to cover the costs then I’d reconsider, but for now I’d prefer the jerseys to look nice, over the Colts making some money that more than likely won’t effect the product on the field.

To be honest. I can see the advantages, and in the dimensions outlined on the IndyStar article, might not be too bad period, but to get them to start looking like soccer jerseys? I just don’t know how I feel about that. Not when the Colts have among the classiest and cleanest jerseys in the league, and regarding the NBA and say the Pacers? I like going to Conseco and seeing

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Frankly, I don’t mind overbearing advertising around stadiums, because I’m not looking at it while I’m watching the game, but overtaking clean and classic uniforms with a large ad in place of “INDIANA” or dare I say the number on the front? Well, I’m just not sure yet how I feel about it.

The Colts unis are sort of a timeless, shouldn’t-be-messed-with thing, IMO.

Though this DOES raise a lot of good humor potential for what teams might have which sponsors: Sony camcorders for our friends in NE, Los Angeles Movers Inc for the guys in Jax, The DOD for the Ravens, Cinn PD for the Bungles….

I don’t tend to pay much attention to what is on a team’s jersey, and although I’d probably prefer the Colts jerseys to remain “clean”, if it helps make the Colts some money then I’ve got no problem with it. Either way I don’t think I’d be fazed. ps. soccer is a terrible sport.

My favorite Costa Rican team, Saprissa didn’t use a sponsor on their jerseys for about 3-4 years and I loved it…now it has two and I hate it. Sponsors end tradition, which isn’t very important in soccer team uniforms because they usually change their uniforms every year (at least a little bit) . That’s not the same case as in the NFL, where teams like the Colts have basically kept the same unis since the very beginning (and I’m almost certain they have no intentions of changing this). Now, the second big difference is WHERE that sponsor patch would be placed. Soccer unis don’t usually have a number on their front side (or at least not as big as NFL unis, which btw is very important for recognizing players). This would mean the sponsor patch would be in top of that, where they currently wear other patches (such as team/league anniversary patches, or for example the Gene Upshaw black patch) or in the backsied where they now have the player names (which I don’t know if is a requirement, but every NFL team does it). This second option is the one that I would dislike the most, but I might approve it in case of a capless season. In conclusion, I don’t care about practice jerseys but I’d hate to see sponsor patches in gameday jerseys, not only for the Colts but in any NFL team.

North American professional sports are inundated with advertising. Ads on jerseys in all the pro leagues is coming eventually.

I’d obviously prefer zero advertising, but that’s the revenue that drives the business.

I picked I don’t care, but it doesn’t make much since to plaster ads all over a set of uniforms that only a handful of people ever see. Someone needs to fire everyone in the Colts’ shitty marketing department.

lol practice uniforms

It’s the other companies that aren’t making marketing sense. The Colts will get paid to put ads on practice jerseys. No big deal. Now the idiot at Brand X that thought this was a good idea (considering only a handful of people will see it) is the one that should get fired. Along with everyone in the department that approved the dumb idea.

I don’t like it for purely selfish reasons. I like using pictures of the Colts in the graphic art I make. Ads would spoil the look I’m going for. I’d have to erase them.

For god sake, let’s not quake and bow to the ulmighty dollar more than we do now….this has to be the stupidest suggestion ever…Euro league adv on team jersey’s are the ultimate in tacky….Plenty of opportunities for ad rev for teams…we don’t need our players to be unwilling whores like they are in Europe….yikes

Tells a story of taking his son to see Manchester United (an English “soccer” team, if you don’t know) play in the 80’s, when they were sponsored by Japanese electronics firm Sharp. The young lad, all of perhaps 8, was happily absorbed in the first fifteen or twenty minutes of the game. He clearly knew the “good” guys played in red, but was puzzled by the opposition. So he piped up:

“Daddy, who are Sharp playing?”

I hate advertising on jerseys. I hate it with every fibre of my being. It demeans the club, demeans everything the jersey stands for. I hate it in “soccer”, I hate it in hockey, I hate it in AFL (where it is, thankfully, only on the backs of the jerseys currently) and if it’s ever introduced in the NFL, I’ll hate it there.

left Wing for sometime in high school and junior college. Been hit pretty hard by some shorties but built like a tank. The only thing that saved me was probably evasive action ;)
It is brutal, but luckily nobody is stupid enough to go helmet to helmet, yet i.e.